OUT Maine awarded $100K to create online LGBTQ educational tools
OUT Maine, the Rockport, Maine–based LGBTQ youth support nonprofit, has been awarded $100,000 to create online educational tools for schools and providers.
Here's what OUT Maine is doing...
Rhode Island youth sports program partners with LGBT+ youth initiative
Project GOAL (Greater Opportunity for Athletes to Learn), the Rhode Island nonprofit that inspires academic achievement through sports—namely, soccer—is partnering with the LGBT+ youth initiative Play Proud to train coaches to help their programs...
Mass. Trans Political Coalition receives $100K grant for leadership academy
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition has received a $100,000 Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Grant from the Mass. Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development. The funds will support MTPC's Trans Leadership Academy....
Vermont police treating vandalized LGBTQ school artwork as hate crime
The defacement of about a dozen chalk drawings in support of LGBTQ rights created by student volunteers at their elementary and middle school in Hinesburg, Vermont, is being treated by police as...
New local pubic-service training program in Vermont reaches out to LGBT women
Vermont's state legislature is made up of 40% women—the highest representation than any other US state except Colorado. However there are far fewer women serving at the town level. So a new program, Emerge...
RI Congressman David Cicilline leads opposition to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills
Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Chair David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Vice Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida led 27 of their colleagues in a letter of opposition against two Florida state...
Maine high-school junior receives national student-advocacy award
Savannah Green, a 16-year-old junior at Gardiner Area High School in Maine, is one of four students nationwide to receive the GLSEN's Student Advocate of the Year Award.
The award "honors an outstanding young person who...
Vermont Reads program focuses on LGBTQ youth for its 2021 selection
The Vermont Humanities Council has selected the LGBTQ young adult novel "We Contain Multitudes" for its Vermont Reads program's book selection of 2021.
Partnering with schools, libraries and...
Marblehead school counters trans bullying with professional training
After a transgender student at the Village School in Marblehead was bullied in December, the school, which educates about 700 fourth-to-sixth graders, quickly responded by organizing a professional training session on gender identity and...
Register by March 4 for EqualityMaine’s ‘Spill the Equalit-Tea’ youth conference
EqualityMaine is proudly hosting its ninth annual LGBTQ+ youth conference on March 8 on the Biddeford Campus of the University of New England—and calling it “Spill the Equalit-Tea,” and it’s literally overflowing with activity.
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